Ottawa Senators call up Mika Zibanejad

Binghamton Senators forward Mika Zibanejad has been called up by the Ottawa Senators.

Zibanejad, who was surprisingly sent to Binghamton at the beginning of the season after playing 42 games in the National Hockey League last year with Ottawa, is now going back to Canada’s capital.

With Ottawa in the 2012-13 campaign, Zibanejad scored 20 points including seven goals with a +9 rating. The Stockholm, Sweden native was the sixth overall pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Senators.

After former B-Sen Jean-Gabriel Pageau went down with a minor injury, Zibanejad was called up to fill out the roster, making sure Ottawa is not short-handed. Pageau has been underwhelming this season in seven games, only tallying one point and a -1 rating.

It is unclear if Pageau will stay in Ottawa or be sent to Binghamton one he is healthy.

According to Sylvain St-Laurent, Zibanejad was practicing on a line Tuesday morning with Erik Condra and former Binghamton star Derek Grant.

In six games this season, Zibanejad is leading Binghamton with seven points.